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DESCRIPTION:In 2013, 22 states implemented 70 abortion restrictions, and over 80
abortion clinics were shut down across the country. It was a record year
for the dismantling of women's reproductive rights.\n\n2013 was also a year
that saw some resistance emerge against the assault on abortion rights and
the war on women. See The Progressive's "Top 5 Moments" of resistance at:
http://progressive.org/top-five-moments-in-2013-war-on-womens-rights\n\nThousands
were involved in different ways in getting the message "Abortion On Demand
and Without Apology" out far and wide in opposition to the continued and
escalating assault on this basic right.\n \nOn Saturday January 25, the
Walk for "Life" will be coming back to San Francisco to protest the right
to abortion and to celebrate the recent success of the anti-abortion
movement. They will march down Market Street, where lampposts currently
sport the slogan "Abortion Hurts Women."\n \nStop Patriarchy is calling on
everyone who refuse to sit idly by while women across the country are
reduced to the role of mere breeders and forced into motherhood or
criminalized if they choose otherwise, to STAND UP in uncompromising
opposition to the Walk for "Life" West Coast at 1:30pm on Saturday, January
25, 2014.\n\nIf you would like to contribute in any way to making this a
massive day of resistance against the escalating war on women, please
contact Alex at 510-593-0319\n\nMore on the Walk for "Life" West
Coast:\n\nThe Walk for "Life" West Coast is a mass mobilization of
anti-abortion activists from around the country that will descend for the
10th time on San Francisco (what they refer to as "Sin City" and "Sodom")
and fill the streets with their doctored photos of stillborns, dehumanizing
polarization of women as either incubators or murderers, and all the
messages of objectification, enslavement, shame, and condemnation that
typifies this front of the War on Women. On January 25, 2014 this mob will
go out in the style of the March for "Life" to protest the dwindling right
to abortion in the US, and they will go completely unopposed unless we
unite to RESIST. \n\nAnd this anti-abortion movement truly has the system
on their side. The war on women rages, and it is winning. To quote the
article Abortion: Stigmatized and Endangered, Time for Massive,
Uncompromising Struggle by Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution Newspaper
and initiator of End Pornography & Patriarchy: The Enslavement &
Degradation of Women: \n\n"More than one in four poor women who seek
abortions cannot afford one and end up burdened with a child against their
will. Women who are able to scrounge up the money must run a gauntlet of
extreme and medically unnecessary restrictions from mandatory waiting
periods to parental notification laws to being forced to endure a probe
inserted into their vaginas, and more. Today, 97% of rural counties do not
have an abortion provider. And whole generations have grown up never having
heard anyone speak of abortion as something positive and moral."\n\nWomen
and men who are fed up with this dangerous dynamic need to SHOW UP on one
coast or the other to say, actually ABORTION IS NOT MURDER, because FETUSES
ARE NOT BABIES, and WOMEN ARE NOT INCUBATORS, or objects, or property, to
strip of this basic right of controlling their own reproduction, their own
futures, and their own lives. \n\nAnd to the debilitated "pro choice"
movement and the Democrats who are always talking about not taking abortion
lightly, not using it as birth control, no late term abortions, only in the
case of rape or incest or underage pregnancy, and so on, and so forth: The
minute you accepted the terms of the right wing, you lost your credibility.
Abortion is NOT even "justifiable" homicide. \nIt isn't homicide at all.
Your context for the issue of abortion access should be the larger
economic, political, and ideological war on women, and then your knee jerk
reaction to the issue itself will never be to apologize for your position
as your opening line! While they continue to apologize, women's lives are
in peril! \n \nAbortion just isn't murder! Contribute TODAY to planting a
new pole -- mobilizing through a movement that is bold, unapologetic, and
determined to win -- in any of many ways.\n \nAbortion on Demand and
Without Apology!\nDEFEAT the War on Women!\n\n
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/11/18749061.php
SUMMARY:Counter-Protest the Walk for "Life" - Stand Up for Abortion Rights!
LOCATION:Powell & Market
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/11/18749061.php
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